A group of cyber criminals under the name “Business Club” operates has about 100 million dollars (91.7 million euros) stolen from bank accounts. The group was also responsible for the steal of thousands of gigabytes of data and espionage in Eastern Europe. That made the Dutch security company Fox-IT said Wednesday
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Fox-IT has collaborated with the American FBI investigation department to use the software the group defuse used. After years of research the gang could be rolled up virtually. The FBI is an important part of the computer that the criminals worked paralyzed.
The gang went to work with the computer virus Game Over ZeuS. By installing it on as many computers without the user was aware of that, Business Club was able to bank accounts and secret data. The FBI Game Over ZeuS now in his own words “ineffective” created.
The group cybercriminals consists of over fifty men. Among them is the Russian Yevgeny Mikhailovich Bogatsjev which is wanted by the FBI. He would not be the sole leader of the group, but have played an important role in cyber theft. The giver of the golden tip that leads to his arrest can be up to $ 3 million gain from the FBI.
According to Andy Chandler Fox-IT has a research team in Delft for many years cooperated with the investigation. “We are very proud that we can share our knowledge and insights about these sophisticated criminal organization,” said Chandler. “Business Club earned hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Business Club may be used by the Russian government for espionage, writes the American magazine Forbes. Since the crisis in Ukraine would be more computers in the country infected by the Game Over ZeuS virus, and it was at the computer looking for sensitive information. Also PCs in the United States were being watched.
More than a million computers were infected with the virus from cybercriminals. Game Over ZeuS may already active since 2009
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